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[Guru Survey] Higher Ed CMS Usage

2. March 2010

If there is one question that serves as the elephant in the room for higher education web development, it’s: “What CMS should I use?” The question is common, but not at all simple, and research data is not easy to come by. We would like to provide some helpful information in this area, and have [...]

Best practices for training content contributors

26. January 2010

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The driving force of any web site is the content contributors, the people who know every detail of their department and hold the key to student success. These are the people you want publishing web content. What they have is value, the closer you can get them to the content creation process the better.

Review: MobileEducator iPhone Application and CMS

13. October 2009

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Last week I was contacted by @lisakribs about a new piece of software her company is developing called MobileEducator, designed for colleges and universities to enable low cost entry into the mobile arena. The software looked fairly neat, and I thought it might be something that plenty of our readers might see value in, [...]

Your Faculty: Do you hide or praise them?

15. July 2009

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Something that gets overlooked quite a bit in the web process is the content you don’t control, your faculty. Faculty are an intricate part of every university and essential to any graduate student, especially Ph.D. looking for a program. Promoting your faculty can be almost as important as promoting your programs.

Are you human? is CAPTCHA needed? Some Alternatives.

3. June 2009

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If you have ever filled out a form online you have probably encountered a CAPTCHA. They come in many shapes and sizes. I am going to detail methods I’ve used to block bots from taking advantage of forms and their pros and cons. If you use a technique that’s not below just comment, the more [...]

Do you have naked HTML out there?

19. May 2009

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A large majority (I hope) of university sites are using a content management system to control the thousands of pages which make up a single university web presence. I am willing to guess that multiple people are editing the content on those pages and they are using some sort of WYSIWYG editor.

Functional Debate: Categories vs. Tags

31. December 2008

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Several days ago (or more, seeing how long it actually took me to get this finished, whoopsie), Twitter user @stomer brought up a question to the Twitterverse regarding a common tool we use any time we work in social media these days: “This a fair description?: categories are like table of contents items, tags are [...]

Evolving in a Recession: Opportunity in Open Source

11. December 2008

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Raise your hand if you see your budget on the chopping block for next year. The current topic de jour has been how so many school’s are being asked to do more with less. Budget crises from state to state have everyone scrambling to find ways to cut corners, and trim fat. Some people are [...]

Improving Your Student Portal: Free 30 Min. Webinar this Wednesday!

1. December 2008

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I’m presenting a free Webinar this Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET in conjunction with the folks at OmniUpdate to talk about a project we’ve been doing for first year students for the last two years in our portal, Luminis. We recently started using OmniUpdate within Luminis, which has made the content management aspect of this [...]

eduWEB 2008 Reflections II

28. July 2008

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Finally yesterday my luggage arrived at GSP Airport four days after I last dropped it off in Philly. It was a short lived time of rejoicing. It’s been a challenging weekend as I visited my family and going through my father’s will and discussing moving issues and passing on his car; he won’t need it [...]